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Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Chapter 10 - Love of Hashem is key to a great life.
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Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Chapter 10 Love of Hashem is key to a great life. The greater the Love the better the relationship, the Happier & more Peaceful you will be. The difference between a complete & incomplete Tzadik is the level of the Love for Hashem that they have. Live Tanya Class at Chabad Thursday Evening at P.M. A Project of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida 5620 Winkler Road Fort Myers, FL 33919 239-433-7708 www.Chabadswf.org [email protected] A Special thanks to David Perez for Video Taping the Class
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okay welcome to this week's T class we
are studying chapter 10 in Hebrew it's
called
per so this week's discussion is about
I'll say it in Hebrew and then I'll
translate the
sadic
G and
sad which means sadic is a righteous man
the righteous man that's G which is
complete and the righteous man which is
in complete or there's another term
called
sadlo aad which is good for him
and which the literal translation is bad
will explain what that means so in other
words this chapter we're focusing on
what is the definition of a sadic
according to the AL in Tanya which is
actually a um revolutionary
definition that then when you would see
it for example in uh the revealed part
of the Torah like in theal Mish Etc this
is the cabalistic inside what a sadik is
now it's an important chapter why
because don't we all want to be sadik
don't we all be like righteous people
yes so what I didn't say that but don't
we all want to be righteous people so in
if in order to in order in order to be
something you have to know what you want
to be in other words sad is a term but
if you don't know what it means to be
that sadic so so here we're going to
learn today what it means to be a sadic
wise and learned okay um that's a
different word but it's a concept we're
going to learn today what the definition
of sadic is and then we'll see how we
can attain that level so the algebra
explains like this
that we've been studying the last few
weeks about the fact that we each have a
Godly soul
we each have an animal soul and The
Godly soul and the animal
Soul both
have 10
faculties divided in three intellectual
faculties and seven emotional faculties
starting
from all the way down to and the
emotional ones and we also have the um
which are the garments
of and thought speech and action so
now to understand what a sadic is we'll
work from the bottom up in other words
like this let's start with the garments
because that's more external Reon I'm
calling it bottom it's more external to
who you really are it's an external for
example anybody can put on the jacket
anybody can wear a doctor's coat and be
a doctor or not be a doctor it's
external it's not really who you are but
n out of 10 if you're in a hospital
hital the guy wearing a white jacket
he's probably a doctor um especially if
he has a degree and his name and so on
and so forth but that's not it doesn't
really tell that doesn't tell you if
he's a good doctor or not he went to
school and he was a good student and he
has experience he's good but that's
already internal stuff but back to our
Point soim what is garments now garments
this pros and cons with the garments is
the fact that a garment you can put on
take off whether you're in the mood or
not in the mood for example let's say
it's freezing outside and in the not in
the mood of wearing a coat but you know
if you're going to go out you're not
going to wear a coat you're going to get
sick you're going to get you're going to
C pneumonia you're not in the mood to
put it on anyway you can be not in the
moon you can think it's actually
ridiculous but you can still do it so in
other words the pros with the you can
put it on even if you're not in the mood
the cons are it's not really
you but in relation to serving God theim
the garments are extremely important for
that reason because even though it's not
really
you in the garments the expression is
you can fake it until you make it in
other words you can still do all the
mitzvot you can still not transgress in
the world of action you can sit and
study Torah you can sit and have all
positive thoughts even though you don't
believe it and you don't think it's
right and you think it's ridiculous and
you think it's Ault whatever you want to
think garments we have full control over
always know whether we're in the mood or
not we can still put on garments and as
we know a lot of times we do things that
we do things we say things we think
things that we're not in the mood of but
that again does not tell us really who
you are the benefit again is that if
you're not in the mood you can still be
nice you can still be kind you can still
be generous you can still be
gentle so when we talk about garments
that plays a b big role we in the life
would be of a russer someone that's
wicked that can still do the right thing
even though he really wants to not do it
absolutely not or wants to do something
terrible or in the life of the ban where
which we will get to in depth the
internal aspect of the B but the B can
still act a life a beautiful life a
Godly life and for sure obviously the
sadic acts in action in speech and in
thought on all three levels
first class so thought speech and action
not an issue um in anyone's life you can
either do it or not do it obviously by
the sadic that's not the issue here for
sure all his actions are in line with
God all his speech is in line with God
and all his thoughts are in line with
God today we're going to learn more
about the inner workings the back room
so to speak of the sadic in other words
who is the sadic we're going to go now
into seeing taking a uh journey into his
intellect and into the emotions of where
does the tadic stand and here is where
it gets um unique to the sadic where his
way of thinking and feeling that is
specifically unique to the toic in other
words what that means is as
follows as we said before thought speech
and action you don't have to be holding
on that level you can still do it here
going
into your
intellect the mind not the active mind
or the act of feeling because that could
be like a garment also you can think
things you don't agree with we're
talking about in Hebrew there's a word
called
hashkafa hashkafa would be your outlook
your mindset your
default um thinking process thinking
pattern your your mental instinctive
ideas in your emotions your natural
feelings towards life towards the world
towards peace happiness God and opposite
of God and as we're going into your
core your core intellect and your core
emotions so the
sadic G let's say let's start with the
highest all the way to the right sadic
which is the complete
sadic
orad thead which is great for him when
we refer to the sadic a righteous man
that's
complete it's not even a question his
thought speech and action are okay the B
also is thought speech and action are
okay in other words in thought speech
and action there is no difference
between thead and the
bad and B both do all the
MIT say all the
prayers I kind gentle have all the right
thoughts there's no
difference here we're going to learn
what's unique about the sadic versus the
ban is that the
sadic
his
mindset and his natural feeling
is uniquely lined up with God and
godliness now what does that mean
practically what does that mean
practically as we
learned every one of us have a Godly
soul and have an animal Soul Now The
Godly
Soul if you just had a Godly Soul so
what is the raw Godly Soul by definition
it's Godly what does that
mean The Godly Soul just
sees and feels the world as a Godly
Place The Godly Soul sees everyone and
everything as good everyone and
everything as tremendous with tremendous
potential everything is
peaceful everything is Happy everything
is perfect and its whole motive is how
do I serve God what does God want me to
do and it's not even a question why I do
something contrary to Godliness The
Godly Soul by definition it's a Godly
Soul that's what it is it's like a cup
of water what's a cup of water a cup of
water you don't have to say a cup of
water is not a cup of soda why would you
think that it is water the same thing
also Godly
Soul what does it want what does it do
it's a soul it's a it's a life force
it's an energy whatever God wants
praying studying doing mitv helping
people being happy being kind uh it's
not even a question not getting involved
in stupidity why would that even be just
like you wouldn't think that water is
soed why would you even think of
something like you know silly or
opposite of godliness that's not what it
is that is basically The Godly soul with
blinders it's not really blinders it
sees the whole world that way but it
sees the world from the lens of a godly
perspective but God gave us an animal
soul
and as we learned before the animal soul
is not necessarily bad the animal soul
is animalistic
selfish
survival but that
sadic just like the ban and the Russia
have a Godly soul and animal Soul the
difference is and we're going to take
all the way the right extreme that the
sadic G the complete complet sadic which
that's right that's the goal that's the
bar we all want to get to right with joy
it's a great place to be I see you're
smiling you can't wait to get there
right it's going to be wonderful when
you get there on all levels I'm not
saying you're not there no you know we
all have different levels we're there at
certain areas in life we are there that
and so on and so forth but obviously the
goal is to live on that level real peace
real Joy exactly but on the highest
level so thead the complete
his animal
Soul has been so
transformed that this that the animal
Soul guess
what you it's called animal Soul because
it was it was Once Upon a Time an animal
soul but really on some level but really
it's it's just another version of The
Godly soul with more energy with more
energy exactly it's the animal Soul
transformed to see the world from a
godly perspective so therefore The Godly
Soul when it sees the world it's it's
like it sees everything is Godly but
it's dull because it's there's no
there's no friction there's no the
animal soul that became like a Godly
soul that sees the world oh my gosh this
is God too this is God is excited about
everything Enthusiast
enthusiastic so
the The Godly Soul sees godliness and
everything and the animal Soul sees
godliness in everything
and has zero
interest not only has zero interest it
doesn't really even exist anything
that's not godly so whatever it sees
it's either Godly or it's an opportunity
to make it a Godly experience but it
doesn't see there's know 0% failure
there 0% not 1% or two or five or even a
half 0% failure it's 100% Godly
lenses there's nothing that you can say
do that will cause a sadic to have an
even a tenth of a
percent of sadness you know sadness of
depression which is not godly or to
think of doing something which is not
godly or not to do a a Godly experience
at every moment it's just it's not in
the cards not in the cards it's 100%
pure
that is thead now the question is and
we'll talk about the sh in a second but
I just want I want to give you a
complete picture the question is how did
or how does the sad G attain that level
that's a powerful
level in other words the goal here is
not to teach us academics I mean even
though it's important to know the fact
but the goal is for us to see how the T
gets there so that we could not only
emulate his ways but learn from his
techniques how to achieve the same
level so how does the sadic get to the
level that not only The Godly soul is
100% but the animal soul is also on
board and anything that's not godly
doesn't
exist not only doesn't exist there's
such a hate and and a disgust to it that
like it wouldn't be even an issue like
here give me an example right let's say
your a um respectful human being you
have your values right and U let's say
for example you like eating you know
we're not going to go into specifically
what you eat because everyone has
different things but you like eating
fresh food you wouldn't eat anything
that's spoiled right whether it's bread
or chicken or meat or vegetables you can
eat fresh right qual good quality
stuff now what happens you out of
town for a couple of weeks you come home
at night late at night right all stores
are closed and you didn't need all day
because you're running you missed a
flight and you're hungry Etc and you get
home it's like midnight and you're
starved you didn't eat in the last three
days and today you didn't eat nothing
and you come to your house and you
forgot to get groceries before you left
and the only thing that's laying in the
house is like a 70% Rotten Tomato it's
it's not maggots don't get me wrong it's
like I'm not going to make it gross but
it's not freshh fresh it's not set it
away to the 30% but you're but you're I
don't mean 30% in one area but talking
global global global so it's not spoiled
but it's not 100% great you in a normal
day you would never even touch it you
wouldn't if I eat it go to the store you
could buy a fresh one right but you
haven't eaten you are starved and you
know if you don't
eat who knows maybe you'll faint and
collapse are you going to eat it yes
you're going to eat it sure you might
you know bite your tongue or put a
little salt on there whatever it is
you're going to eat it right because
it's not rotten it's just not fresh it's
uh on the way it's on the verge it has
like a little has already a little tinge
of it's going that bad but but you still
it's edible right so you can manage it
but what so that's one right you can
handle it right why could you handle it
cuz it's not really spoiled it's not
spoiled but what happens if you come
home there's nothing there's like
nothing in the
house but guess what happens you give a
look smell you smell some food you go to
the garbage and in the garbage is a
rotten banana that has actually bugs
coming out of
it literally bugs and
maggots you want me to like embellish it
a little more right I think we have the
you get the gist right it's something
it's something like which is like Beyond
growth right Beyond
nauseating bugs magnets coming out of
and you're
starved what are the chances you going
eat it none
none like you said all of a sudden
you're not so hungry you'll wait it out
till the morning right why why is that
what's the difference you hungry for I
must eat otherwise I'm going to who
knows what right and I show you the 30%
it's rotten a little bit you ate it this
you won't touch
why why it's very simple because certain
things are non-negotiable and certain
things are negotiable something that's
rotten something that is bugs and
there's maggots and there you know who
knows what creeping out of it you're not
going to touch it you'll starve if you
have to but you're not eating it why
because it's there is there is a concept
in you that certain things are discuss
thing Li there's a line there's a limit
there's limits there are certain things
which are borderline right okay
now what happens if you're
a in Hebrew there's
AIC language there's an expression
called an
istus uh an istus is somebody that is a
um it's it's more than a perfectionist
it's someone that if a tomato had even
like 100th of percent of a black dot I'm
perfect you wouldn't even notice it but
someone that's like so particular
particular is probably a good word and
you won't touch it right it's like L can
make you throw up that's your
personality right or if you know the
bread is not spoiled God forbid just a
day old there's no way you're putting it
even you're not even going to feed it to
your dog that's it's a personality thing
right as your border is much limited or
wider whatever you want to call it right
and you come after the same
trip and you see that tomato
which 99% of people are going to eat it
but for you you see that you're not
touching it are you going to eat it no
I'll wait till tomorrow I mean depending
right what does that mean that means
that depending on how you view yourself
or your quality that you set for
yourself or your standard you set for
yourself that's how much you're not
going to do the opposite of it you got
the analogy
okay so the AL says a sadic G what does
that mean someone's aad G complete but
complete what so we were talking more in
the world of actions we focus on what
he's eating not
eating the author was saying that sad
somebody that his love for
God is off the
charts we didn't say he's willing to do
what God says that's actions his love
for
God is is like off the
charts his intellectual connection with
God is like whoo he's Blown Away With
God this infinite God God that created
the world I can't even create like one t
I can't create I put it together for I
can maybe put something together but
great forget about it God created me
maintains me in this world and all the
millions and billions of people in this
world and he feeds us he clothes us he
provides us ear nonstop EV he stopped
providing oxygen ear we're finished
water and so right so this person this
sadic who's has Clarity of mind and has
his his heart is plugged in to the
reality what's going on in the world he
know his eyes are
opened think God sadic basically
somebody his eyes are opened open to the
truth he's open to the truth that was
that God created this phenomenal world
and he feels wow this is someone like
whoa I like this guy I mean you're blown
away I mean today somebody makes like a
fasinating speech or whatever everyone's
also in drawn to the guy the speech God
created creates God created the person's
speech so at sadic his eyes are open he
sees the truth he feels the truth and
there's nothing that he's going to do
that's not going to allow him to cleave
to the truth that's what a toic
is so because he so
infatuated on an emotional
level and intellectual level with
God to him God is like it's not like God
God is God is the thing there's nothing
that sound like you can compare you know
let's say you you have you count one to
100 right it's 100 spaces away a
thousand a 10 100 a million 10 million
right there's a comparison whatever even
it's one to a trillion it's a comparison
to him there's nothing it's not even
compare how can you compare any human
being any physical thing to God there's
no comparison God's infinite infinite
creator that created and keeps on
creating there's no comparison anything
to it so you're going to go and impress
him with somebody someone's going to
make a dance someone's going to make an
impression some piece of food or some
some uh human being that's going to it's
going to attract the person more than
God if you're really infatuated with god
with the infinite God there's nothing in
this world that's gonna even get you to
Blink or to get you to Veer off look
somewhere else why would you you have
God infinite power so in other words
that sadik's it's hard for us to relate
to it I mean I'm talking to myself
because obviously I'm not sadic right
but the point is that a sadik's love for
God is Way Beyond anything we can
comprehend of because what do we get
excited about what we had some this a a
good lunch or a good dinner you know
what I mean a good class even that
that's you can't help comparison to to
the infinite power of
God soad because he's in such love with
God and so intellectually connected with
God there's nothing that he's getting
excited about not only he's not getting
excited about he looks at everything
else it's like it's narish kite it's
silliness it's like you know it's like
it's it's a joke it's like a joke it's
like it's like if somebody was worth try
to give an example but even it's not
even a real example let's say someone's
worth I don't know a hundred billion
dollars right and you're going try to
make a deal with him to make five cents
I mean you think he has even a head for
it and spend now 3 hours to try to make
five cents and that's five cents and
there a comparison because it isn't the
same this is in this is you can't
compare so you know because that saic's
love for God is so great there's nothing
that's going to get his attention unless
it's in that category is there anything
in in that
category close to it no not on nothing
not on this not on this
so is sitting in this world and he says
guess what I got
God I'm in love with this God I'm
literally in love with this God I'll
pray to him I study his Torah any of his
mitv it's not because this no it's it's
because it's God's Mitzvah I'm willing
to do any Mitzvah God says be nice to
everybody I don't care what they behave
or what they act it doesn't make a
difference to me God told me to be nice
everybody irrelevant how they act
so do I care if you're going to spit me
in the face or you going to say
something silly or you going to insult
me or you going to act foolish no
because I I'm not I don't work for you I
work for who I work for God he gave me
marching orders give see the way you
know the soldier
stands by the guard gate like in a real
Kingdom you know whether it's in the any
Royal Kingdom they don't I was in Russia
and there's gu there's guard standing by
the gate there you have to look for 20
minutes to see whether the person's
really a mummy that's there it's no joke
they don't even blink they don't even
blink or the person's alive that's so
serious to their job we we're standing
for 20 minutes we head a debate whether
the guy is real or it's fake the guy
stands at attention machine like a
machine wouldn't blink why you think
he's doing that because the fear and the
a that he has for his he you can't do
that as a hired person he obviously was
either self-induced or is indoctrinated
about the fear of the you know the Royal
right majesty and the power of Russia
what irrelevant but the point is that
that's the way that sadic vies the world
the only thing he's excited about is God
tell him something else hey let's go out
for lunch lunch I'm busy with God lunch
I mean I just need to eat give me
something so I can survive but I mean
I'm I'm on a high Mission here I mean
why would I get excited about the Lun
going out for lunch or eating something
yeah I got to eat so fine give me the
food let me make the blessing let me eat
it so I can have strength so I can
continue serving Ving God that's the
only thing that excites a
sadic so in other words here's the key
point and this is crucial because a
sadic
basically is extremely in love with
God extremely deeply connected with God
intellectually so it's not that he hates
anything which is counter of
godliness and he has like this passion
hate against anything which is not godly
no no no that's missing the point true
he does hate it but not because he hates
it it's because he's busy it's like
could you imagine if um I uh tell you
I'm going to invite you as a gift to a
room for one hour and in this one
hour um there's diamonds there you can
take as many diamonds as you can fill up
in your pockets and bags for one
hour so you walk into the room and you
have 1 hour but in the middle they have
sushi stands and they have music and
they have nice photography
right distraction and they have
entertainment and they have good gossip
right good
conversations what are you going to do
you know you have one hour and the one
hour thing is over are you going to
spend time eating sushi now are you
going to be sitting and dancing to music
now are you going to be playing a game
or gossiping with someone you have one
hour you're I mean if you're
smart what do I get the diamonds right
how do I fill out the pockets the bags
and you're walking out or you can oh you
know I'll get the diamonds in minut I
have an hour meanwhile you go eat sushi
right you may have some drink of wine
you'll play a game with someone you'll
gossip boom hour is over guess what I
want to get St hours up the Sonic
doesn't waste a
second he knows his time in this world
is how long limited whatever the time is
it's a finite time in this world he can
have a relationship with God like no
other and he's going to spend every
moment doing what eating sushi going
after a steak and having a nice
conversation or praying studying doing
mitv inspiring other people guys this is
now the time to collect the diamonds
come to heaven the game is over whatever
you brought with you that's what you
have know when you go to heaven all the
Torah you studied whether it's 10 pages
or 5,000 Pages you will learn it deeper
but if you come with one page or no
Pages you have nothing to you have
nothing to advance on so here you get
the diamonds here you get the foundation
for your whole
future so back to the point so sadic is
totally focused his love for God his
intense intellectual connection with God
therefore does anything have any value
to him no it's actually a wasting his
time he actually resents that they put
sushi in the room and they have
entertainment in the room because you're
wasting my time you're trying to
distract me this is NIS kite this
diamonds we have here why why why he's
actually upset not upset to the point
he's angry he's just this is like a he
knows this is a distraction it's not
even a question it's a
distraction so that is basically the
definition of what of a sadic
g
and here's the second word he's complete
why is he Complete because when he walks
into the room in the analogy is he
focused on one thing
what love the love of God the diamonds
love of God the connection with God so
he's complete he's not being pulled let
me grab a piece of sushi he has no
interest he knows the value of a diamond
he's not interested in he has zero
interest in going to now for a dance or
going to have a conversation with
somebody zero cuz he his eyes are opened
as we said before the light is on he
knows what really is the value and he
knows every second spending time with
that stuff is taking away from getting
the real diamonds the spiritual
diamonds so it's s he's complete he
doesn't have have these crazy things in
his head or in his heart he's not being
torn he's complete he's not being
torn what
is the other term he has a good
life he's not being pulled to different
parties in the same room no no no he
sure do parties going on but he's not
pulled he's one party he has a good life
life is great for him focused on one
party that is to one extreme you got it
again not you might look at it oh he's
only busy doing the mitv that is true
but again the key point is that from an
intellectual and emotional Place both
his Godly soul and his animal so more
importantly has been
transformed one thing he has
peace and joy and joy so in
reality the
banan will also only go for the diamonds
but his heart is pulling him there his
mind is saying maybe a little bit right
he's not at peace is his intellect and
his emotions that sad is like is living
a peaceful life he has zero
interest zero interest you know kind of
you know what kind of thing that is
that's
great I mean that is a high
level and that's a great place to be
where your understanding of the
greatness of God
hi welcome your understanding of the
greatness of God your feeling for God is
the only thing that's you're driving
force within you and you're at peace
with it you have zero interest welcome
have a seat in anything
else on the other hand what is
aad
or so again as we said before in the
beginning of class thought speech and
action they they're both going to end up
in the same line we're going for the
diamonds we're going to teach we're
going to pray we're going to help you
right but what isad what is
sad mean very simple
that his love for God is
tremendous
but it's not
100% it's
98% and again it could could be a lot of
variations anywhere from anywhere from
uh 999 down to whatever percentage you
want to call it right a small percent
right whatever whatever the percentage
is Le it's a certain percent less than
100% his love is not complete therefore
because his love is not 100% complete on
God even though he's still going to go
for those diamonds but while he's
studying Torah and doing Mitzvah and
praying his heart is a little bit you
know maybe a little sush maybe a little
Sushi there you maybe a
little and some uh and and some and some
red wine with it right and some red wine
with it right or maybe like a steak
sandwich right what whatever it may be
correct or maybe go like the good squ
and have a dance right but I don't like
steak fish Let It Be fish fine so
thead what does that mean there's a part
to him no at the end he's not going to
go there he's not going to go there
because he knows he's focused studying
Torah doing mitv praying he's even if he
goes he's there to elevate the sushi to
make a blessing to elevate Etc his goal
is the same but his heart is is like is
like a little a little nagging at him
kny at him you know or his mind he's not
100% sure this is the right decision
again not 50% not 70 you know a few
percent and obviously that few percent
you know varies on each
person now so the question is
if he has that percent that's already so
why is he not a b what do what's a b a
bain is basically as we we discuss and
we'll discuss in a couple of chapters
when we get back into the life of the
ban which is the real struggle the ban
basically is the struggle between The
Godly Soul the animal Soul means his
heart and his mind are constantly
playing games with him in thoughts
speech and action he's going to do just
like tadic so what's the difference
between the B and
thead it's not complete very simple
in the ban there's a strong
percentage and the strong percentage is
a notal percentage and it's a real
percentage Shan according to ALB is
someone that is there but it's get but
it's really it's really it's there you
can't say it's not there he's not 100%
in the love for God there is a
percentage but it's not enough of
percent that really makes it a real
struggle it just bothers him in other
words like this in other words the
analogy they give is for example let's
say you have a pot of of soup chicken
soup and um a drop of milk falls into
pow of chicken soup but there's more
than 60 times the amount of chicken soup
than the milk so even though it was real
milk that went in there real milk but it
gets nullified it gets nullified and we
say it's 100% kosher you can't do it to
begin with but if it happened by
accident what's the point the point is
this did milk go in there yes or no it
did you can't say it didn't but could
you say there's any Taste of milk no is
it nullified it's gone so know the same
thing also the sad is going to have this
like
tinge of he's going to have this tinge
of like a feeling in his emotions or in
his mind you know to do to do something
but it's gone you know what I mean but
it still bothers him you know me it's
like it's it's there but you know but
it's still it's but it still bothers you
but he's not
aist exactly particular one correct yes
yes yes yes have it just so correct
correct so in other words like this so
and here's the key point and I think
it's so crucial that the point is that
if you really want to be on a like have
the ultimate level of Peace because
think about what's what does g mean g
means he's complete complete means he's
complete he doesn't have anything
knowing at him he has a good life the
only way to do that again true you have
to do thought speech and action but
that's not going to get you to the real
place of Peace real place of peace is
going to be when you're able to
transform yourself to the point where
you really
meditate and realize and your eyes opens
up and you realize how great God is and
you realize how powerful God is and you
fall in love with God yeah fall in love
with God from an emotional level and you
connect to God intellectual level and if
anything that's not God zero it doesn't
even it doesn't even go on your radar
but everything is God right every sure
everything's God but certain things God
created in a way that that's con God's
concealed so the concealment part
doesn't go into the radar exactly you
see the godliness in it in other in
other
words with to put it into pra the
Practical terms the author puts in very
practical terms he says like
this what does that mean practically so
we know that it's brought down it says
in cabala in Z AL brings down
Tanya that
I'll say it in Hebrew and I'll translate
it God had a
desire to have a Dwelling
Place in a low place now what does that
mean let me translate and explain what
it
means means God had a desire what means
he had a desire we know in the spiritual
plane of you know intellect and emot
emotions above intellect is something
which is called desire that means desire
comes from a place which is really
actually higher than intellect me let
say for example you you have a feeling
for something that's
great yeah you really you you connected
something intellectually it's even
deeper once you have a desire for
something desire is extremely powerful
because it comes from your essence of
your
soul so now and fact the expression of
mysticism is that when a person has a
desire for something you don't ask any
questions
why do you have a desire you have a
desire intellectually I can explain to
you why I like this versus that that's
if I I'm only wanted intellectually or
if it makes me feel I explain to why it
makes me feel good but say listen I have
a desire I want why I just do so so it
says M God had a desire it means it came
from a place where there's no
reason Le he wanted dra what's a d a
Dwelling Place what's a dwelling a
dwelling place means you're comfortable
in your house you're comfortable if it's
your house and only your home you're
comfortable you can say what you want
you can think when you you want you can
get up when you want go to sleep when
you want you don't have to answer to
anybody it's your house if you're a
guest in somebody's house we all know
that you're not you're not 100%
comfortable even if it's a good friend
and family you know there there there
eyes watching and there's people there
and just there's a certain etiquette and
so on it's not bad and good it's just
you're not really yourself you know
there's something about your own house a
matter of fact according to myone person
does not have a house it's not a person
why cuz the order to be a person you
have to have a place which is yours
doesn't mean you own it you're ex you
can be yourself you can sing You Can
Dance you can cry you can laugh you can
do whatever you want you can do nothing
whatever it may be you can get up when
you want you go to sleep when you want
you can say what you want you can think
right so a person has to so God wanted a
place in this world that should be a
dwelling place for Dwelling Place the
god should feel comfortable in a low
place what does low mean so we know low
doesn't mean physically don't mean
spiritually low what does it mean
spiritually low in a
place where God is not a reality know in
a place where God's a
reality
right so nobody recognize God but in a
place where God's not in the reality in
the physical world all you see is
physical things you don't necessarily
see even though it's all God but you
don't see God he's hidden God's hidden
but in this physical world people say
you know what somebody created this and
we're going to follow God now the only
reason are you following God cuz you
chose to follow
God no no one's forcing you to follow
God you on your own thought about it and
you're choosing to follow
God now when you're choosing to follow
God it's a choice not only is it a
choice it's a hard choice because the
whole world says what are you wasting
time with this religion and Judaism and
God and and you know restrictions you
can't do this you can't do that just
live a free person right there's a lot
of opposition the whole world tells you
hey do what you want say what you want
Pray when you want you know study what
you want Study you know you don't do
whatever you want right be a free person
but you're saying no that's very nice
you know who's really a free person I
want to follow God because I know he's
ultimately he's the real power he
created this world even though he's
hiding but I want to follow him so God
said when a person in this physical
world where it's not apparent that God
exists and you make a conscious choice
and a conscious Choice possibly against
what the masses are saying and you serve
God and you recognize God's in the world
guess what happens
that's what I
desired that's what I desired that's
what God desired God desired that's what
God desired so when a sadic one second
so when a one second so when a sadic
when a sadic knows that and he loves God
and he's deeply connected with God and
he says what God desired a Dwelling
Place in this world the only thing I
will do from morning to night day after
day week after week month after month
just do one thing what is that make sure
that God's desire is
actualized that in this dark world
there's going to be a place to study
Torah there's going to be a place to
pray there's going to be people doing
mitzvot there's going to be people
that's going to be happy even with all
the chaos in the world and all the
reasons not to be happy and with all the
reasons to fight no we're going to be
unified anyway we're going to get along
anyway we're going to love each other
even though there's reasons to hate each
other no no no because we're going to
make this world a place that what God's
gonna say this is the place I wanted so
why is the tadic doing this because it
feels good because he's trying to get
brownie points with God no cuz God had a
desire I would like to actualize God's
desire for only one reason because I
want God's desire to be fulfilled in
this world I have no agenda No Agenda I
want God to qu exactly I want God to
quell exactly one second I want God to
exactly so another so another in other
words in other words so what's a sadic
what's a sadic what's a righteous person
because he loves God again we're not
talking the functional part of following
God as a follower because he loves God
and he's deeply connected to God and he
knows God has this desire he has one
agenda he wants him to flow through him
what's his one agenda that God should be
filled in this world because that's what
God wanted that was his desire once a
sadic does that anything that's going to
make God unwelcome this world no I don't
want to hear about it you can have every
reason why you want to do it not it's
not even it's not it's not for
discussion not up for discussion because
we're only doing things saying thinking
only things that makes God welcome you
know what makes God welcome in this
world you pray you study you get along
you're happy uh you do
mitzvot you unify people you love people
well that's what makes God happy that's
what we're doing anything the opposite
that we're not doing it done and that is
ultimately
aad means as we said
before he he like to do that
95% 5% listen I got to take care of my
own needs right and that's where in
actuality he'll still do everything God
wants but in his heart he hasn't been
he's not sold 100% or he's not you know
the the love is not burning 100% Etc
But
ultimately if we're able
to act like a sadic even sometimes we're
not holding in that level and here's a
key Point all brings out in this part
this chapter in t it sounds like oh my
gosh this is crazy I'll never be able to
hold that level it's true it's a high
level because your heart has to feel it
your mind has to be connected to it but
the alar says you can still you can
still practice it even though you're not
feeling it you can still make believe
you're feeling it and you can still
accept it even though you're not you're
not you're not there yet and as long as
you so to speak play it out and you fake
it eventually you can make it eventually
you can make it but look at the prize at
the end you'll be a real complete person
with no two voices and two messages
slepping you different places because at
the end of the day is what do you want
what do we all want we want peace we
want Clarity and because we have peace
and Clarity you can do anything and you
can deal with everything and the only
way you can really have peace and
Clarity is when you have one driver and
when you have one love for the greatest
thing God and one deep understanding of
God right it says everyone will know
that the knowledge of God your eyes will
open up and see it and then you about to
experience the greatest level of peace
and happiness that is the essence of
chapter